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Message:: [QUOTE="Kentucky, post: 1735858, member: 33176"]If you are a novice collector, I might question your reasons for collecting.  TPG's (Third Party Graders) were started, in my extimation, to have a reliable source so that coins could be traded like other comodities.  That being the intent, there are a lot of them including the big 3 (NGC, PCGS and ANACS) with ICG coming in just behind in some estimations.  That being said, if you have 12 MS67 2009-P Native American Dollars from any one of the three (or four) top TPG's, they still might all sell for different prices since eye-appeal is all for most collectors.  If you join certain associationa, you get a certain number of free submitions, and this can explain why there are some unlikely slabbed coins.  In general you will pay more for slabbed coins than for "raw" coins, and I sincerely question if this makes them any more valuable.  BTW, welcome to CoinTalk.[/QUOTE]